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^^^ 1. The FGFA is a science project we cannot afford. What's the number tossed around—$25-30Bn? The IAF does not want it: deliverables aside, it will kill CAPEX needed for ops for the next decade. "No doubt, the Russians wouldn’t be happy about this, but India has substantial existing and futu...

Why does the IAF seem against the FGFA? They were actively against it after the Russians clammed up after a demo accident and refused the IAF any access to causes. Answer: the IAF was totally petrified at having it's CAPEX tied up in yet another R&D exercise at the expense of the Rafale which th...

"The Israeli military said an Iranian drone it shot down over the weekend was based on an American stealth drone that was intercepted by Iran six years ago. https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/12/middleeast/israel-iran-drone-intl/index.html Interesting how they've maintained F4s and F-14s in spite of s...

Just one data point- the man hours for the HAL assembled Rafales were apparently 2.4 times higher than those for Dassault assembled Rafales. That estimation remained a point of contention till the very end of the MRCA contest. .... Also one must remember that way before the demise of the MRCA deal,...

By 2025, the IAF will retire ~250 fighters. Assuming HAL goes full bore with 2 lines and 32 LCA MK-1As per year from 2019-2025, that's 225 a/c. Add the 18 follow-on options for Rafale and you get 243. All of this to keep the fighter squadrons at 32. That's not accounting for attrition. I'm not sure ...

"Nevertheless, he must be cautious in believing and acting, and must not inspire fear of his own accord, and must proceed in a temperate manner with prudence and humanity, so that too much confidence does not render him incautious, and too much diffidence does not render him intolerant. From th...

What is the US motivation for this symbolic act? Considering that it might have negative connotations for their own aircraft industry... It's a hoary tradition in the style of 1950s NatGeo (when it was called National Geographic and Gilbert Grosvenor was around). White man dons native costume to sh...

The Rohingya Suffer Real Horrors. So Why Are Some of Their Stories Untrue? https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/01/world/asia/rohingya-myanmar-camps.html "I was reporting on children who had arrived in the camps without their families. An international charity, which had given financial support to t...

Zorya or ge or rr may not make all parts. Generally a collection of vendors supply these and some may have collapsed and vanished as it happened in 1991 ussr. The physical plant may be there but unpaid workers moved away. Antonov perhaps had a deep cache of parts and better finances to upg our an32...

Here is a story about defence acquisition in OZ. "Buyer's remorse: Australia's sorry record on defence hardware" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/29/buyers-remorse-australias-sorry-record-on-defence-hardware?CMP=share_btn_wa They have been only screwing up for a decade. They hav...

^^^"We have no plan" Or PLAN for that matter. Actually we have no military goal or objective except for 'defending' against 'any attack' and 'giving befitting reply'. This stems from not having a strategic political doctrine. Lots of rhetoric but no implementable steps. Hence we try to hav...

^^^Key takeaway: :"Israeli researchers work on antimissile missile in hopes of an air force order" They keep plugging away—first with the hope of an IDF order but with the fallback of selling it to us because they have a marketing machine that is connected to R&D. They are not 'order t...

.."You can pick one up in airline configuration for as little as $9 million, and that’s a pretty good deal for a big—and I do mean big—airplane that can fly 8,000 miles nonstop at a top speed of 469 knots. (A new 767 with an airline interior will set you back $185 million.) Even if you install ...

SHQ was asking what is this SPIKE deal with Israel? 1. DRDO objected. Got the PSU unions to throw their weight around. MoD wobbled because it's what they do. 2. COAS Bipin Rawat intervened to argue that Indian infantry would be at disadvantage to Pakis if they had to wait until 2022 for first deliv...

.... Now with a gora JV or gora consultant, I am protected from the clutches of these other desis. I know in my heart, I am just as good as this gora but I am not better than the machination of my fellow desis. The gora lends an air of decency and safety from my own kind. Some truth here. That's wh...

^^^ Ah the fabled Qatari Mirages again.... https://forums.bharat-rakshak.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=7266&p=2235803#p2235803 It is both ironic and funny that you keep bringing up the 12 Qatari M2Ks as something that we believe will provide a magic solution to the depleting squadron strength in ...

^^^ Ah the fabled Qatari Mirages again. Elsewhere BRfites are considering retired French Jaguars. http://www.airport-data.com/images/aircraft/small/000/397/397838.jpg What is this gene within us that causes us to assume that any sellers would leave vast quantities of hidden unused usability for us s...

...Ka226/LUH saga is an example. I can bet that the 100th desi-built Ka-226 will have less desi components than the first series production LUH. And, I'll bet once 100 Ka226 and LUH are built you'll have fewer Ka226 flight-worthy that LUH. The 100th desi-built KA-226 will likely have less desi comp...

This is relevant to the LCA. This is why MP says they bought the Rafale https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/manohar-parrikar-says-rafale-deal-gives-india-edge-over-pak-1785775 He's talking about the Meteor. Just a thought MK1A/2 with conformal fuel tanks (another 1,000 kg worth) brings it into Gripen E...

This is relevant to the LCA. This is why MP says they bought the Rafale "Pakistan had only about 20 km range ... due to which they remained away," he said. However, between 1999 and 2014, Pakistan acquired a capacity of 100 km range whereas India had upgraded its BVR up to 60 km on SU30, h...

'wild Christmas parties, nurses, really interesting conversation regarding combat aircraft'. Somehow, this does not 'gel'. Is there a subtext we should be looking for? :) You mean you can't see any connection between the Norfolk broads and birds? Age dims the spread. In my dotage I thought it was s...

^^In 1984-85 the break up of the USSR was still a few years away. I was working in Great Yarmouth - a place on the eastern tip of the English coast in Norfolk. There used to be some wild Christmas parties and one of the nurses had a sister who was a radar operator in an east coast station. I recall...

... ... a country with a democratic government simply will not work that way. People hate democracy for this reason and then the topic usually shifts to how bad Indian democracy is and how things get done oh so easily in xyz democratic western nation. But we must reach solutions that are feasible i...

CRamS: I simultaneously weep profusely...etc. This is not fuel -- this is tar/bitumen for laying roads. Just do a web search on that product and the import/export documents for it. States that pretty clearly. Just because Indian journalists are a bunch of low IQ cretins, doesn't mean we have to exp...

@VivS "Core design experience we will only get with a new clean-sheet project which isn't economical for the quantities we envision (the export market is already saturated). The best we can hope for is local assembly and component production that can hopefully feed into the global eco-system. I...

This sent the BP up a notch: As Obama Warns Modi, Ivanka Given Lavish Welcome in India "Obama picked up on India’s main current social issue when he said that, along with other countries, it should ensure that a Muslim population felt integrated. “That is something that should be cherished and ...

^^^Picklu wrote: In other news, it is confirmed now. IA trial team forced Arjun to run 1000s of KM in reverse gear to cause failure of the engine and used the same to reject. Put a few more reverse gears on it and may be of serious interest to the Egyptians who will only need one forward gear in cas...

^^^ for once, you are correct. This entire FRCV tamasha was written for the Armata in mind. The other contendors are there just for show. When I said this a few moons back on BRF, I was criticized for saying so. :roll: Sad if it happens. The Armata will be a half baked item unable to perform, and t...

The second point,to maintain qualitaive superiority necessitates the acquisition asap of a 5th-gen fighter.Here,in whatever shape or form,the FGFA deal must be sealed. Why? The JSF's test reports are public, its (many) warts are being fixed. The FGFA does not have a single flying prototype, and the...